Thomas Dinges was born in 1991. He started using Blender and became interested in 3D graphics at the age of 16, after seeing the world’s first open movie, Elephants Dream. In 2009, he started working on Blender as a developer, helping create the new interface for the Blender 2.5x project. He also has organized the German Blender conference, BlenderDay, since 2009. His website is http://www.dingto.org/.